US Politics on Sidechat | if you make ~60k a year, food stamps cost you $36 a year in taxes. you pay around $700 a year in corporate subsidies

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US Politics 1w

if you make ~60k a year, food stamps cost you $36 a year in taxes. you pay around $700 a year in corporate subsidies

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Anonymous 1w

The US, home to the “Free Market” where corporations get propped up by the government if they’re not doing well because we’ve pushed so many essential functions into the private sector since Ronald Reagan’s era

Anonymous 1w

Check your math again. SNAP costs $100 billion annually, corporate subsidies cost $181 billion annually.

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cheese_of_the_world_unite 1w

Like we subsidize the medical industry so much so that the insurance execs and hospital admins can still make massive profits, and that’s Totally Cool Free Market Economics but if you suggest the government should just take over the healthcare sector instead of giving the middlemen all that money, then that’s Dirty Scary Socialism

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#2 1w

This also seems misleading as entitlement programs are by far the largest spending category.

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#2 1w

There are so many entitlement programs in fact, that the typical household earning $60,000 pays no net taxes when considering every type of tax at every level of government. (The median household income is $83,730/yr)